Presumably people who do this kind of thing with vintage machinery must have some sort of insurance?
04.11.2025 14:20 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0@antronicsltd.bsky.social
Developer of embedded microntroller-based systems. Contract/consultant. Specialist in IoT, M2M communications and interfacing. May also contain cats, steam engines, and more.
Presumably people who do this kind of thing with vintage machinery must have some sort of insurance?
04.11.2025 14:20 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Reminds me of that scene in The Incredibles...
04.11.2025 13:47 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0"plumber ... good lead"
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I wonder how that compares to "The Good (sic) Old Days" of just copying the class "swot's" homework?
Or just leaving it to the last minute?
Were boys always more likely to do that than girls?
But does mean I can now do the Eric Morecambe things with jiggling them & putting them upside-down, etc.
Also the Captain Mainwaring thing of having them askew after a pratfall.
A person wearing glasses, standing under a beam and pointing at a "MIND YOUR HEAD" sign.
Have had to wear "reading" glasses for about 8 years now.
Still annoying having to keep putting them on & off.
Dartmouth #railway station opened in 1864 - it has never had any railway tracks, let alone any #trains!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmou...
There was a consultation:
www.gov.uk/government/c...
If you buy one, do they boast about it on the receipt?
"Today YOU SAVED ยฃ0.00!"
B&M a few years ago - 2 for the price of nearly 3:
03.11.2025 18:10 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0And UK is thinking about it:
www.gov.uk/government/c...
Also France:
www.pv-magazine.com/2024/11/18/f...
"No 6, please - we're British"
02.11.2025 23:08 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Especially when I live in a country which does not have "states"!
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Full stack!
02.11.2025 22:51 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0A tall, thin scaffold tower against a red brick wall. The tower reaches almost to the eaves of the two-storey building. There is clear blue sky in the background.
#Microcontroller #firmware tends to be fairly low-level stuff.
Today, for a change, I have been working on a high-level platform
Photograph of an open fire
Oh, the weather outside is frightful
But ...
Can you say when it's going to air?
31.10.2025 17:51 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Would be more interesting that a lot of the stuff on there, tbh ...
31.10.2025 15:38 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0You too, eh?
31.10.2025 15:37 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Two electronic circuit boards on a piece of perforated matrix prototyping board. The upper circuit board is white, has Arduino-style connectors, and is in a "portrait" orientation. The lower board is red, in "landscape". The matrix board is also white.
Thanks to everyone who has liked and/or reposted this.
For the avoidance of doubt, I'm not a game developer myself.
I'm an #EmbeddedSystems developer - making  #firmware for #microcontrollers.
#IoT #electronics and all that
The Andrew formerly known as Prince
31.10.2025 14:02 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Something that isn't nocuous...?
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IGMC
As I now seem to have a few #GameDev people amongst my followers, if any of you has or knows of any openings for a #3D #Artist my son would be pleased to hear from you:
www.linkedin.com/posts/james-...
#Blender #ZBrush #SubstancePainter #SubstanceDesigner #Photoshop #3DCoat #Animation
Not a #gamedev, but Tortoise has GUIs for both Git and SVN...
tortoisegit.org
tortoisesvn.net
When companies send you a letter, they really should put some sort of reference number in it that you can simply dial into their AVR system and it will connect you direct to someone with all the appropriate information.
How Hard Can It Be?
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Ours used to keep checking the fireplace for a mouse that went and hid there ages ago!
30.10.2025 17:21 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Local chippy is using some new-fangled synthetic coating on its fish.
I can't believe its not batter!
Don't believe anyone who says cats don't have good memory...
30.10.2025 17:00 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Screenshot of Google search for "owls near me". First hit is the Owls Near Me website. Then there's the "AI Overview": You can find owls near Basingstoke at wildlife parks like the New Forest Wildlife Park and Hawk Conservancy Trust. To see them in the wild, look for rough grassland areas at dawn or dusk, especially on still evenings, where barn owls hunt for voles, notes The Wildlife Trusts. Other nearby options include Liberty's Owl, Raptor and Reptile Centre and Birdworld.
Well, so there is!
(I think the AI is being a bit optimistic calling Ringwood "near")